Meaning of enunciate in English

enunciate

verb

formal

/ɪˈnʌn.si.eɪt/ uk

/ɪˈnʌn.si.eɪt/

enunciate verb (PRONOUNCE)

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[ I or T ]

to pronounce words or parts of words clearly:

He doesn't enunciate (his words) very clearly.

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Ways of speaking

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enunciate verb (EXPLAIN)

[ T ]

to express and explain a plan or principle clearly or formally:

In the speech, the leader enunciated his party's proposals for tax reform.

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Announcing, informing & stating

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enunciation

(Definition of enunciate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

enunciate | Intermediate English

enunciate

verb [ I/T ]

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/ɪˈnʌn·siˌeɪt/

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to state something clearly and often officially:

[ T ] The administration enunciated a new policy on security issues.

To enunciate is also to pronounce words:

[ T ] He enunciated his words carefully.

(Definition of enunciate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of enunciate

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Believe it or not, myriad emotions can be suggested while fully enunciating and projecting each word.

From Los Angeles Times

Where some of her peers had trouble forming and enunciating reactions, she struggled to frame hers in a manner both constructive and engaging.

From Plain Dealer

And he enunciates selectively, doesn't tie off all his words.

From NPR

But with enough persistence, it can, and often does, subvert the principles enunciated by the nation's highest court.

From Ars Technica

A punch, a sneer, or simple babbling, have replaced fluid and well enunciated conversation.

From Huffington Post

Sometimes when you're nervous or something like that, your jaw gets caught up and then you can't really enunciate.

From NPR

With wide, dark eyes and a soft, sweet voice, she clearly enunciates her words -- almost too clearly and robotically -- though her message is rather jumbled.

From International Business Times

You can now listen to him online, reading sections of the poem in his exactingly enunciated, tastefully exaggerated, thoroughly satisfying way.

From The New Yorker

Those principles have operated as a brake on all governments that recognize them by enunciating the concept of natural rights.

From Washington Times

He flashed a knowing smile when he heard "dithyramb" enunciated by the moderator in the first round.

From Minneapolis Star Tribune

Both demand that you enunciate studiously if you care to have your query recognized, and even then some hilarious misinterpretations can and do occur.

From The Verge

The idea is to be intimate to the point of being too relaxed to bother enunciating clearly.

From NPR

And that the state in order to do so has to enunciate a compelling state interest that would be akin to troop movements in time of war.

From ABC News

For example, \ 3 \ indicated that the following 3 characters were enunciated loudly while \ 2 # \ indicated that the following 2 characters were nasalized.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

So, in one important example, naturalists might use the vocabulary of physics to enunciate a vocabulary of physical objects or of morality.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

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in Chinese (Traditional)

發音, 清楚地念（字）, 清晰地發（音）…

Meaning of enunciate in English

enunciate verb (PRONOUNCE)

enunciate verb (EXPLAIN)

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enunciate | Intermediate English

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